Quotes of: Painting Keyword

It's not about perfection. What's a perfect painting? What's interesting about a perfect painting?

Peter Doig

Before civilization, artists painted for the living. Today, most paint for a living.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty paints and when it painted most, I shot.

Ernst Haas

I paint landscapes, figuratives. I painted all my life. In fact, I started as a commercial artist.

Pierce Brosnan

I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.

Frida Kahlo

It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.

Yoko Ono

If I'm painting, I paint every day. I'll be up in the studio from 8:00 in the morning to 8:00 at night.

John Mellencamp

I do house things. I paint. I do portraits. I also paint my house.

Willa Ford

For whom does the blind man's wife paint herself?

English

If you have walked into a museum recently - whether you did so to attend an art exhibition or to escape from the police - you may have noticed a type of painting known as a triptych. A triptych has three panels, with something different painted on ea...

The Austere Academy

I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the li...

The Painted Veil

Once, Turner had himself lashed to the mast of a ship for several hours, during a furious storm, so that he could later paint the storm. Obviously, it was not the storm itself that Turner intended to paint. What he intended to paint was a representat...

Wittgenstein's Mistress

So all I’m saying is take that tiara back out, place it on your head, and prance around like a goddess. Paint your face, paint those pictures, paint the entire world if that’s what you want. Leave your colorful mark in this school, and together, ...

Love

I've always been a creative person, and I'd always wanted to paint, so I went to art school and began painting and sculpting.

Shirley Eaton

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Vincent Van Gogh

I hope to actually get back to painting someday... soon. I sort of transitioned into cartooning from painting.

Max Cannon

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.

Frida Kahlo

What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way.

Peter Doig

He painted me when I was young because he was in love with me, but now that he has loved me he doesn't paint me anymore.

Jane Birkin

I intend to destroy, destroy everything that exists in painting. I have utter contempt for painting.

Juan Miro

Kitty Fane: As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue.

The Painted Veil